We Now Know

Rethinking Cold War History

John Lewis Gaddis

Did the Soviet Union want world revolution? Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba? What made the Cold War last as long as it did? The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective. Based on the latest findings of Cold War historians and extensive research in American archives as well as the recently opened archives in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China, We Now Know provides a vividly written, eye-opening account of the Cold War during the years from the end of World War II to its most dangerous moment, the Cuban missile crisis.

We Now Know

Rethinking Cold War History

John Lewis Gaddis

Description

Did the Soviet Union want world revolution? Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba? What made the Cold War last as long as it did? The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective. Based on the latest findings of Cold War historians and extensive research in American archives as well as the recently opened archives in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China, We Now Know provides a vividly written, eye-opening account of the Cold War during the years from the end of World War II to its most dangerous moment, the Cuban missile crisis.We Now Know stands as a powerful vindication of US policy throughout the period, and as a thought-provoking reassessment of the Cold War by one of its most distinguished historians.

We Now Know

Rethinking Cold War History

John Lewis Gaddis

Table of Contents

1. Dividing the World2. Cold War Empires: Europe3. Cold War Empires: Asia4. Nuclear Weapons and the Early Cold War5. The German Question6. The Third World7. Economics, Ideology, and Alliance Solidarity8. Nuclear Weapons and the Escalation of the Cold War9. The Cuban Missile Crisis10. The New Cold War History: First ImpressionsNotes, Bibliography, Index